Note 529 — Chapter VI · MEXICO. (continued 2)
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Obregon, op. cit., 2ª Serie, pp. 389, 392-3.
Lizardi’s troubles did not end with the extinction of the Inquisition. In 1822 he issued a defence of Free-Masonry which excited clerical wrath. In Puebla, a priest, after arousing the people with his sermons, headed a mob which broke into a printer’s shop, carried off the obnoxious books and made an auto de fe of them, leading to a tumult in which three men were killed and a number were wounded. About the same time Lizardi was obliged to appeal to the Córtes for protection against his public excommunication by the archiepiscopal provisor.—El Sol, pp. 122, 146, 152 (Mexico, 1822).